Very small of its kind.

穿得像小大人的孩子。

1A thing that is much smaller than normal, especially a small replica or model.

1. 1.1 A very small bottle of spirits.
   小瓶酒
   he drank miniatures of brandy on the flight

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   • There's a lingering smell of lavender and nice homely touches such as flowers, china tea cups, a bowl of chocolates and whisky miniatures.
   • You've finished the last of the plonk in the wine rack, you've drunk the miniatures stolen from minibars and found at the bottom of your suitcase.
   • Throughout the show, he finds constant excuses to swig Special Brew and bottles of scotch, even using spirits miniatures as puppets in a retelling of Goldilocks.
   • Absinthe was also put up in so-called mignonettes, comparable to the one-drink miniatures from which spirits are dispensed on airplanes today.
   • We always found ways round it, like nicking miniatures from the plane and putting them in our drinks.
   • Facilities are excellent, with well-stocked mini-bars that offer bottles of wine, whisky miniatures and even disposable cameras.
   • It was stacked full of miniature spirits, and mini cans of coke and soft drinks, the same kind of miniatures that you get on airline flights.
   • The minibar is also reasonably priced 3.70 euros for miniatures, 2.20 for soft drinks.
   • There were some spirits bottles, but just a selection of five or six miniatures where I would expect to see dozens of 70 cl bottles.
   • There is a scurrilous rumour that Charlie will welch on his bet by substituting miniatures for the 70 cl bottles he owes.
   • I was nervous because these particular scenes were so good, so well-written I could taste the bitterness, taste the defeat in the whiskey miniatures.
   • The complimentary mini-bar contained two whisky and two gin miniatures, two beers, soft drinks, and bottled water; on the table top was a basket of fresh fruit.
2. 1.2 A plant or animal that is a smaller version of an existing variety or breed.
   小种植物（或动物）
   miniatures for your rock garden

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   • Behind the large rose-shaped fountain, old-fashioned shrub roses are planted, and baskets of miniatures dangle from a pergola.
   • True miniatures, the trees are as happy in a container as in garden soil.
   • A keen observer can also find around the same area a tiny plant, almost a miniature of the creeper Torenia travancorica.
   • For miniatures used as landscape plants, use hedge shears to maintain size.
   • Exotic orchids, anthuriums, native flowers and miniatures of fruit-laden trees like breadfruit, cocoa or cherry can be seen in the collection on show at the Museum auditorium.
   • He's bred miniatures as small as your thumbnail, and crossbred them to give large, ranging plants shape.
   • There were horses galore, from large Shires to miniatures, and the number of horse entries provided the organisers with a record for this year's show with a difference.
   • Maxwell, one of the Dexter miniature breed of cattle, is the first calf to be born at Tatton's Home Farm since the foot and mouth epidemic devastated British livestock in 2001.
   • The family of orchids is the largest plant family, with a great deal of variety as well, from miniatures such as Mystacidium caffrum to the 20-foot-tall Renanthera storei.
   • The aristocrats of plants grown in pots are bonsai, perfectly normal garden trees skilfully trained to grow as miniatures ranging from three inches to three feet tall.
3. 1.3 A very small and highly detailed portrait or other painting.
   小画像；微型画
   an exhibition of one hundred pastels and miniatures

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   • He acquired some portraits, but in the absence of substantial space for a gallery, he appears to have devoted more of his energies to creating a very fine collection of portrait miniatures.
   • Now the whole country is likely to get a glimpse of the table, which is not a font, but fine Parisian relic from the 1850s, bearing 20 hand-painted miniatures from the court of Louis XVI.
   • The daguerreotype portrait assumed many of the characteristics of the traditional miniature painted on ivory or enamel.
   • Today he is out of prison and his miniatures are exhibited at New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art.
   • While I love painting and sketching miniatures, I still have a need for big paintings, bigger the better.
   • The picture is replicated in two private collections and in a miniature at the Wallace Collection.
   • The giving, receiving, and wearing of portrait miniatures as part of fashionable social practice is, as we have seen, one aspect of the luxury Archenholz identifies with England.
   • Last time I did this was in Somerset, painting standard miniatures for framing.
   • Other kinds of mementoes were stored in lockets and books: locks of hair, painted miniatures, pressed flowers.
   • The new gallery of British portrait miniatures, including this depiction of Jane Small by Hans Holbein, opens on 2 March.
   • It comprises some twenty paintings, twenty drawings, and three miniatures from numerous public collections and the British Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
   • He fitted in study of the museum's European portrait miniatures and this would later materialise as a catalogue, handsome but somewhat mangled by the American editing.
   • The Age of Shakespeare is a Hilliard miniature among the full-length portraits that Frank Kermode has drawn, but that does not diminish its value.
   • In Hilliard's hands, the miniature was far more than a mere reduced version of a panel portrait - but that was thanks to his creative invention.
   • During his work on portrait miniatures Reynolds turned to the Victorian paintings that had been given to the museum by John Sheepshanks in 1857 as a core collection of British art.
   • Johnson also worked at three-quarter-length and occasionally full-length, as well as painting portrait miniatures in oil on copper.
   • A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
   • A garden shed will provide gallery space for a series of miniatures and a copy of Lady Chatterley's lover.
   • While I'm waiting for my magnifying glass to turn up I shall keep away from painting miniatures.
   • Laver's second in command, Carl Winter, was a brilliant and witty Australian who was generous with information from his studies of the Constable collection and portrait miniatures, following Basil Long's work on the latter.

   Synonyms

   painting, picture, drawing, sketch, likeness, image, study, representation, portrayal, depiction, canvas
4. 1.4 A picture or decorated letter in an illuminated manuscript.
   （华美装饰手稿上的）画饰；花字
   a catalogue devoted to cut-out miniatures from despoiled manuscripts

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   • Timur, or Tamerlane, modelled himself on Genghiz Khan, and miniatures on the wall depict his ferocious onslaught on Baghdad.
   • He has not yet advised me to use the earth colours as was done by traditional artists when they painted miniatures.
   • While the Mughal and Rajasthani miniatures chronicled wars and durbars and musical soirées, Praneet Soi's miniatures are about love and loss, about life in a changing India.
   • It runs the gamut of art riches over the centuries, stretching to murals, miniatures and manuscripts.
   • Numerous panels, often deliberately aged, and illuminated miniatures or historiated initials, usually on reused leaves from genuine medieval manuscripts, survive and frequently appear on the art market.
   • In its strictest sense, the word miniature (in manuscripts) refers to paintings in gouache often combined with gold.
   • Dimitrova has spent the past year working on her reading of the visual text at the British Library, but in order for the project to move forward, the miniatures need to be filmed before they can be transferred to the final CD-Rom.
   • For instance, the Jataka tales of Buddhism are depicted in the Ajanta and Ellora frescoes while the biographies of the Mughal emperors, such as the Akbarnama and Jehangirnama, were illuminated by miniatures.
   • One example of traditional painting is the Indian miniature.
   • These rather different kinds of miniatures - although not as well known as the other Mughal paintings - were patronised by Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II of Bijapur during the early days of miniatures.
   • Albums of Persian miniatures rather than European canvases furnished Ottoman painters with their chief models.
   • Rank favors shallow, frontal compositions reminiscent of Japanese woodcuts and Indian miniatures as well as of American folk art.
   • In an age where photography did not exist, unlike artists abroad who soften aristocratic features in oils, Indian painters preferred stylised versions in miniatures.
   • Most of the miniatures deal with the epics and highlight religious mythology and common folklore.
   • The manuscript's decoration is lavish: it contains 46 full-page miniatures, painted headpieces and initials, and over a thousand gold letters.
   • That also goes for the work of Gaudi, Persian miniatures, art nouveau and everything else.
   • In spite of the banners' grandiose scale, the colorful, abstracted figures and landscapes featured in the paintings were inspired by Persian and Indian miniatures.
   • They may include a medieval illuminated miniature; the window in the wonderful room at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul.
   • His image has also survived in a few panel paintings, later copies of original portraits, and through representations of the duke and his court in the miniatures of illuminated manuscripts.
   • He examines ancient texts on elephants and the Mughal miniatures.

Represent on a smaller scale.